In the time that _Urban_ the eighth Excommunicated the _Lucheses_ for going about to repress the Insolence of Church-men in their State; all the _Italian_ Princes sided with them, not out of any particular affection to them, but out of a politick reason, they being all concern’d in the loss of _Lucca_, for thereby the Ecclesiastick State and the pride of the _Nipotismo_ would have been encreased. And yet no body for all this durst say any thing against the _Pope’s_ Person or Authority, but lay all the fault upon the _Nipotismo_; As one day I heard a Senator of _Venice_ discoursing in these words: _Italy has little reason to complain of the_ Popes, _but it has a great deal to murmur against their Nephews_. Urban _would be good and holy if_ Francesco Antonio _and_ Tadeo Barberini _were not devils_; _but as his affection blinds him to them_, _so does their pride blind them in their conduct towards Princes_. _Because they __have a Vail drawn over their eyes_, _they think that all the world must be one colour_. _And they are so busied from morning to night in disposing of that vast Treasure which they have already gathered_, _and in inventing new waies to purchase more_, _that they think not of getting the favour of those Princes who will remain such when the_ Barberins _shall cease to be Lords and Masters_. _If their Interest had not so great an Empire over them they would govern the Church better_; _and in a word_, _the Church would be in them_, _and not they in the Church_. But what a strange Sacrilegious opinion is that which is maintained by the Divines of the Church of _Rome_? viz. _That one who has got his riches by Extortions_, _and oppressing of the poor_, _and any wicked way_, _is not obliged to a restitution to the poor_: _But it is enough if when he dies he leaves his Estate to some Church_, _founds a Monastery_, _or an Hospital_; as if it were lawful to transgress the Law of God, and bring ones self into a state of damnation to satisfie that covetous and insatiable humour of the Church-men. If the Walls of _Rome_ could speak, and the Fabricks of so many stately Cloysters had mouths to make themselves heard; if those vast Palaces of the _Nipotismos_ were animated; Oh! How many tender-hearted Christians would be fain to forsake the City, and retire into desarts, that they might not hear the stones complain for the poor, and lament their misfortune? _Ferdinand_, Second Duke of _Toscany_, having a great deal of reason to complain of the _Barberins_ proceedings towards him, said one day to one who was about to go in Pilgrimage to _Rome_: _That the holiest Temple __that he should see there would be the_ Barberins _Palace_, _for that it was cemented and built with the bloud of many Martyrs_.